ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,879, issued on June 3, was assigned to Katcher LLC (Round Rock, Texas).
"Using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect pest activity" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), Roger S. Hollander (Austin, Texas), John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas) and Shivshanker S. Naimpally (Leander, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a sensor node is mounted to a wood item using two metal fasteners. The sensor node measures an ambient temperature using a thermometer, measures an ambient humidity using a hygrometer, and measures, using an ohmmeter, a resistance of the wood item between the two metal fasteners. The se...